Waste To Value

What this short covers

The journey of a biotech founder, including navigating alternative financing, building customer-centric models, and the personal challenges and strategic pivots involved in creating a sustainable biotech startup like Decycle Bio.

Transcript

So we we're using these computational approaches originally developed at MIT and combining them with what are called self-free systems and techniques that we're adopting from one of our faculty adviserss at Stanford and we bridge the gap between those two approaches using the types of enzyme engineering that I was practicing all the way back at Manis. And when we combine these approaches, it creates an opportunity to conduct what some people refer to as waste of value transformations. When we think about all of the great industries that society has built over generations, many of these global scale industries have waist streams that are otherwise contaminants to our environment.

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